Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-07-20
Minor HApDeniDgs.

A dispatch OF the 10th from COnStantl-
| nople saws Sir Henry Drummond Wolff,
| special English envoy, who was ordered
home on the refusal Of the sultan to
| sign the Egyptian convention, has start
| ed for London.
| On the 18th r. F. Cowen, supreme
| keeper of record and seals of the Knights
of Pythias, died at his home on Cook
| Avenue, St. Louis.
Engineer Price was killed and several
| persons injured by a collision near Gym
| thiana KY.
The Edmunds-Tucker law has caused
large decrease in the Mormon vote in
Utah. The school election in Salt Lake
| City resulted in the Gentiles carrying
five of the twenty-one elections.
At CHARTERS, Pa, Henry Price, aged
Y, accidentally shot and killed his
brother Michael, II years old.
Gen. Richard Rowett, one of the best
known residents of Southern Illinois
aud man whose name is familiar in all
| parts of the country in connection with
the running turf and the breeding of
| thoroughbred horses, dropped dead at
the Washington Park race track, Chi
| cago, on the 18th. Heart disease is sup
posed to nave been the cause.
Four men were killed at the Colby
mine near Bessemer. by a fall Of ground.
Their names are Henry Hartman. John
Wanapsky, S. Sadard and John STICKY
A small riot occurred at Paterson, n
j.. during an Orangemen parade. The
paraders were stoned. The rioters were
dispersed by the police and twelve ar
rested.
Eddie McDode, the 15-year-old catcher
of the Mount Vernon ball blub of Ph1la-
delphia, was killed by being struck in
the neck by a ball, his windpipe being
broken
Winthrop R. Cunningham & Son.
New York drug dealers, have assigned
The secured liabilities are between
$500 900 and 5000 900. and the unsecured
liabilities 100000.
Miss Mary E. Royce, a welI-known
Chicago educator, was drowned at that
city on the 18th, by falling into the
water while attempting to land from a
yacht.
Three boys were drowned in the Del
aware at Port Richmond, on the 18th.
Seventy-fve pauper emigrants were
detained at Castle Garden on the 18th
A gunpowder magazine at Massowah
exploded on the 18th inst, killing seven
italian soldiers and wounding forty FIVE
others.
Several buildings were demolished at
Pine Island, Mimi, by a tornado.
The liabilities of the Oxford Copper
and Sulphur Company, of New York,
which has just gone into receivers
hands, are placed at $500, 900, with nomi-
nal assets ofdouble the amount.
The brewers union of Cincinnati,
numbering between 600 and 800 men,
has been suspended from the knights
of Labor for INSTRUMENTATION. They re-
fused to pay the monthly assessment for
the general fund.
A slight shock of earthquake was ex-
perie1ced IN the vicinity of Dover, N. III.
The postmaster-general has issued an
order prohibiting a convention Of rail
way postal clerks.
Oscar J. Harvey, the defrauding
treasury clerk, has made an assignment.
The United States is preferred creditor
in the sum of $11 200.
Two children of John Blankhead were
killed and another and Mrs. Blankhead
were fatally injured by stroke of light
ming near Opelika, Kas.
Since the outbreak of yellow fever at
Key West there have been eighty-three
cases of the disease, twenty seven Of
which resulted fatally. Thirty-three
cases are now under treatment.
A sensational story is published in the
New ork papers of the wife of a leading
sugar merchant, residing on Fifth Az
enue, who was supposed to nave died
from heart disease, recovering as her
body was about to be incinerated.
An accident on the Minnesota &
Northwestern Road near Lombard, ILL.,,
resulted in the killing of four men and
the injury of number of others.
The strike of the New York CO tmen
is at an end.
An oil we'll with flow beyond all
precedent has gushed forth near Toledo,
o.
Nine men were killed by powder
explosion on a railroad near Columbia,
S. G.
Six bodies have been recovered from
the Best & Belcher mine near Virgin
ia, New.
A band Of 100 Apaches who escaped
capture by Gen. Miles is doing bloody
work in Northern Mexico.
The Minnesota & Bradner Paper Com
pany, of Minneapolis, has made an as
signment. Liabilities, $60,OO0; assets,
$50, 600.
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